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UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE

EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI_________________________________________________________________________

_____April 12, 2012For Immediate Release

FORMER CEO FOR MISSOURI EMPLOYERS MUTUAL

AND ATTORNEY FOR HERZOG CREBS INDICTED ON

MISAPPROPRIATION OF INSURANCE FUNDS

St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorneys Office announced today that Roger B.Wilson, age 66 of Columbia MO, and Edward J. Griesedieck, III, age 53 of St. Louis MO, were

indicted late yesterday afternoon on a charge of misappropriating $5,000 from the MissouriEmployers Mutual Insurance Company, which is an insurance company created by the MissouriLegislature in 1994 to provide workers compensation insurance.

At all relevant times for the indictment, the defendant Roger Wilson served eitheras the interim (2009) or permanent (2010) Chief Executive Officer for MissouriEmployers Mutual Insurance Company (hereinafter referred to as MEM); thedefendant Edward J. Griesedieck, III was a partner at the Herzog Crebs law firm in St.Louis and a member of that law firms management committee; and Douglas Morgan,since deceased, was a member and Chairman of the Board of Directors for MEM.

The indictment charges that in the summer of 2009, at the direction of DouglasMorgan, Edward Griesedieck caused his law firm make a $5,000 contribution to theMissouri Democratic Party and then include the cost of the $5,000 contribution as ahidden cost in the legal bills which were submitted in the normal course of business toMEM. As the Executive Director of MEM, Roger Wilson later approved the payments ofthe legal billings, including the $5,000, knowing that $5,000 of the bill was not for legalwork but was in fact a reimbursement for the contribution to the Democratic Party.Other than Douglas Morgan, no other member of the MEM Board of Directors approvedthe political contribution, knew of a political contribution being included in the legalbilling, or approved reimbursing the law firm for the $5,000 contribution. MEM paid the$5,000 to the Herzog Crebs law firm on October 8, 2009.

In December 2009 , Douglas Morgan requested a second contribution fromGriesedieck for the Democratic Party, this time in the amount of $3,000; andreimbursement to the law firm was ultimately planned to be handled in the samemanner as the first contribution. However, in August of 2010, when the general counselfor MEM in a routine review of legal matters questioned that particular legal billing,Roger Wilson decided to reimburse the law firm from his personal funds. No loss wassuffered by MEM with respect to this second contribution.

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